As we know to stop the spread of COVID-19, many people around the world have engaged in prolonged social isolation over the past several months. Due to the absence of social contact for a longer period and uncertainty of coronavirus, there will be obvious psychological underpinning.
Our only hope is breaking the chain by social distancing but with social involvement.
To minimize this mental pressure we provide a medium that provides detailed information about a place by denoting the particular area with color Green zone(less risk), yellow zone (need to take care ), and red zone(compulsory ).The different areas have different dos and don'ts e we provide it through audio and text.
The main feature of our application is whenever the user will be out of the house they can maintain social distancing (6ft recommended by WHO) using our augmented reality tool. It creates a safe boundary of 6ft radius and user will be able to avoid 6ft distance and do their tasks.
They need not have to worry about distance as our app keeps them in isolation with the freedom to move outside the house. We also keep records whether users have followed isolation well or not and increase retention or engage users through our rewarding system.
If there are two phrases we have heard more than any other thing the last 4 months are probably "Isolation" and "Social Distancing ".These are not a new concept but roads are less traveled in Nepal. The concept of "Laxman Rekha" has been in the heart and mind of us since time immemorial goddess Sita was abducted by Ravana, an antagonist character in the Ramayana just because she crossed the safe boundary line (Laxman Rekha). For many, Sita's situation is more comparable to the victims of COVID-19 as they crossed the line of control "Laxman Rekha". In the same context, we want to introduce our version of Laxman Rekha. An augmented reality-based social distancing radar that helps people adopt "social distancing" to prevent pandemic coronavirus.
Coronavirus has transformed everything we thought we knew about our daily lives, our government, and our health into a kind of bizarre world where FaceTime dating and panic-buying toilet paper are the new norms. We directly cannot bring everything back to normal but we can give a mental boost to people by allowing them to be outside but with maintaining distance as mentioned by WHO(6ft). Most of the people these days have mobile phones so, we came of with idea where user can use their mobile phones to encounter people outside their homes and maintain their social life.
Each time a user uses our application while encountering people outside their homes (banks , bus stations, etc) and follows dos and don'ts. If they avoid the red zone and follow instructions properly, they will be awarded with points. This point is awarded for creating a planet, at first we provide them an unhealthy planet which keeps on changing on the basis of points and finally changes into a healthy planet. The planet that you were creating starts growing healthy with an increase in points. If the user fails to perform self-isolation while they are outwards then point decreases and the health condition of the planet becomes bad in another world we will try to portrait the present scenario. For the planet, we have used data's and textures available in NASA datasets.
For developing our application we use Android Studio, Unity and Visual Studio Code. We use Unity for developing Augmented Reality based apps. We use Flutter for developing mobile applications. For maps we use google map API. Based on the available data, on the map we separate areas on the red zone, yellow zone and green zone. We use dart, C# and python languages in our project.
Our team has problems finding the best dataset that can be used for this project. Augmented reality based apps may not be supported in all devices. We had difficulties in figuring out a particular mentor for the project. As we were connected virtually, we found some difficulties during communication. However, we used the available dataset by processing it and made it fit in the project. We developed an AR-based shield and provide dos and don'ts in the user's current location. It makes people feel safe while performing their task and reduces mental stress as well. Although this is our first virtual hackathon, we overcome communication issues upto the end of the hackathon.